402 MamMALiA OF INDIA. 
the dark line along the back, but not the cross band on the shoulder ; 
ears shorter. ‘ 
Size.—About 12 to 14 hands in height. 
From its larger size, shorter ears, and its shrill bray, which has been 
mistaken for a neigh, this animal has at times been taken for a horse, 
and described as such. ‘The kiang, of which there is a living specimen 
in the London Zoological Gardens, inhabits the high plateaux of Thibet, 
ranging up to fifteen and sixteen thousand feet above the sea level. It 
is very swift and wary. 
The late Brigadier-General McMaster, in his ‘ Notes on Jerdon,’ page 
248, says: ‘‘An excellent sportsman and very close observer, who, 
being a cavalry officer, should be able to give a sound opinion on the 
matter, assured me that the voice of the wild horse of the snowy 
Himalayas is ‘an unmistakeable zeigh, not a bray, and that he certainly 
looked on them as horses. He had seen several of these animals, 
and killed one.” Captain (now General) R. Strachey wrote of it: 
“My impression as to the voice of the yang is that it is a shrieking 
bray and not a neigh ;” and again: “the £yazg, so far as external aspect 
is concerned, is obviously an ass and not an horse.” Of this there is 
but little doubt. Moorcroft, in his travels, vol. 1. p. 312, states: “In 
the eastern parts of Ladakh is a nondescript wild variety of horse 
which I may call Eguus kiang. It is perhaps more of an ass than a 
horse, but its ears are shorter, and it is certainly not the gur-khor or 
wild ass of Sind.” Further on, at page 442, he adds: ‘“‘ We saw many 
herds of the kyang, and I made numerous attempts to bring one 
down, but with invariably bad success. Some were wounded, but not 
sufficiently to check their speed, and they quickly bounded up the 
rocks, where it was impossible to follow. They would afford excellent 
sport to four or five men well mounted, but a single individual has no 
chance. The kyang allows his pursuer to approach no nearer than five 
or six hundred yards; he then trots off, turns, looks and waits till you 
are almost within distance, when he is off again. If fired at he is 
frightened, and scampers off altogether. ‘The Chanthan people some- 
times catch them by snares—sometimes shoot them. From all I have 
seen of the animal I should pronounce him to be neither a horse nor 
an ass. His shape is as much like that of the one as the other, but his 
cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour is a 
light reddish-chestnut, but the nose, the under-part of the jaw and neck, 
the belly and the legs are white, the mane is dun and erect, the ears 
are moderately long, the tail bare and reaching a little below the hock. 
The height is about fourteen hands, ‘The form, from the fore to the 
hind Jeg and feet to a level with the back is more square than that of 
an ass. His back is less straight, and there is a dip behind the withers 
and a rounding of tle crupper which is more like the shape of the 
